Food Scraps?

[duckman4048]

mine get literally everything from the kitchen except for citrus...they see me coming with the kitchen bucket and they will follow me everywhere its so funny. originally I use to bring the scraps in a shopping bag and even now if im in the barn if I shake a bag they all come running....I LOVE CHICKENS!! jus sayn

 

[Chambertin]

Mine eat everything that's left over from the kitchen.

Exactly, there is no limit. If its food, then it goes to the chickens and they get the final say.
Everything goes to them and they make the best tasting eggs you have ever had from those leftovers.
We were even partial to asking people in restaurants if we could take their leftovers. We had a grocery store that sold us partially rotten bits too. Them where the chickens favorites, bugs and all.

"Throw it all in the coop and let the Chickens sort it out."

Other than green potato peels, which are unsafe for about everything there isnt anything I can think of that passes through a kitchen which is unsafe or not recommended for a chicken coop.


EDIT:
As for meat, they LOVE meat. Double so chicken meat. The only worry is to feed them raw egg.
Even that is a-ok unless they make the link between what they lay and what they tasted. Still better off to cook it and not have the chance of starting an egg eater.
Everything loves to eat chicken, even chickens. Here's a T-Shirt I wanted to sell more of

 

[Hayduke27]

I feed my chickens everything, and as others have said, they sort it out. No processed foods of course, but they get citrus, meats, apples (with seeds), grapes, raisins, all of it. They even eat bananas, which sounds like a rarity among chooks! I am careful about egg shells. I crush those up before I feed them to the girls, just because I don't want them in the habit of smashing up egg shells

I have read a couple of threads by people who have huge commercial compost heaps, and the chickens get free reign over the whole thing. These folks seem to have very happy, healthy chickens, and as mentioned again and again, the chickens sort out what they want to eat and what not to.

Of course, mine got into my garden last summer and ate a GIANT rhubarb bush, leaves and all. I never saw any ill effects, and they still love rhubarb. Maybe they are just building up their immunity to poisons

 

[Hayduke27]

 

[dolfi]

Exactly, there is no limit. If its food, then it goes to the chickens and they get the final say.
Everything goes to them and they make the best tasting eggs you have ever had from those leftovers.
We were even partial to asking people in restaurants if we could take their leftovers. We had a grocery store that sold us partially rotten bits too. Them where the chickens favorites, bugs and all.

"Throw it all in the coop and let the Chickens sort it out."

Other than green potato peels, which are unsafe for about everything there isnt anything I can think of that passes through a kitchen which is unsafe or not recommended for a chicken coop.


EDIT:
As for meat, they LOVE meat. Double so chicken meat. The only worry is to feed them raw egg.
Even that is a-ok unless they make the link between what they lay and what they tasted. Still better off to cook it and not have the chance of starting an egg eater.
Everything loves to eat chicken, even chickens. Here's a T-Shirt I wanted to sell more of

 

[jeffdubya]

we own a small business located next door to a local taco del mar. They give us leftover rice, cilantro, cabbage, lettuce and tomatoes and the ladies love it. Before that, I used to hit one of our local supermarkets, who would give us a large box of goodies. We also feed them nearly every imaginable table scrap, with the exception of anything in the nightshade family, which they don't seem to care for. Halloween pumpkins are among their favorites.

 

[furbabymum]

I have a compost bin in the chicken run. If it's a fruit, veggie or grain it goes to the chickens. If it's a meat it goes to the dogs. Nothing is wasted in our house!

 

[mamabigbird]

I have had chickens for years it is interesting that they will eat coins. stones, marbles, buttons and anything else they find. Yet people still question if food scraps will hurt them. LOL

No kidding. Don't try to change a tire while they are around. They steal lug nuts. And we had an entire sheet of styrofoam consumed before we realized that it had been blown off a shelf in the carport.

 

[chad-o]

No kidding. Don't try to change a tire while they are around. They steal lug nuts. And we had an entire sheet of styrofoam consumed before we realized that it had been blown off a shelf in the carport.

Not to worry it all comes out in the end!!! LOL

 

[elorraine52]

No kidding. Don't try to change a tire while they are around. They steal lug nuts. And we had an entire sheet of styrofoam consumed before we realized that it had been blown off a shelf in the carport.

yes, I collect bags of leaves in town to put in their runs in the winter, and some of the ones I got last fall had some trash mixed in, some styrofoam pieces, I tried and tried to get them all picked up, but still they ended up eating some of it, I was worried it would hurt them, but everyone seems OK. Wonder why they think it's food?